1.   As president, Eisenhower appointed her secretary of the newly created Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

2.   A deputy permanent secretary was also appointed for the local press.

3.   Assistant Cabinet secretaries generally are appointed as acting secretaries when their bosses resign to seek political office in the final months of an administration.

4.   But progress stalled when Kenya refused to appoint a secretary general of the commission because, it claimed, Uganda was harboring Kenyan dissidents.

5.   Citing security reasons, rebel leader Jonas Savimbi failed to attend the signing ceremony and appointed the secretary general of UNITA to sign for him.

6.   If appointed secretary general of the military organization based in Brussels, he would be the first Norwegian to hold the highest civilian post in NATO.